general assembly

1. 1.

   the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations

   Broaderdeliberative assembly

   Part ofUnited Nations
2. 2.

   persons who make or amend or repeal laws

   Synonymslegislaturelegislative assemblylegislative bodylaw-makers

   Broaderassembly

   NarrowersenateCongresshouselegislative councilcongressdietparliamentDuma

   Part ofgovernment

Questions about general assembly

What does general assembly mean?

general assembly means "the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for general assembly?

Close synonyms include legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, law-makers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is general assembly a common word?

general assembly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.